OOPS!
The picture says it all really….
I pulled the trigger on my Beeman P-17 a bit early when bringing it up to target in my basement.
At least it was an old 14 inch screen that I almost recycled last month anyhow… I just used it for testing PC’s friends and neighbors bring over for repairs
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I think we all have done something along these lines, at least it was only a monitor. I was shooting clays with family many years ago, made a cardinal mistake and had my finger resting on the trigger, shotgun pointed up. My cousin was next to me and the gun discharged, very soft trigger, but my finger should’nt have been there to begin with. I almost shit my pants, could have been much worse. I learned alot that day and i’am still freaked out when i think about it.
Scary moment for sure. 😯
I have pointed out to more than one person before that there finger is on the trigger, when they have no intention of shooting. Too many times they say “the safety is on” or “it isn’t loaded”.
Some say to treat every gun as if it were loaded.
I take it a bit further.
There is no such thing as an unloaded gun. Ever.
Revwarnut…….you are officially my hero. 8) 😆
Too Funny.
Harry
This one doesn’t bother me other than I should have been more careful to control the pressure I had on the trigger for this little stunt. Any other time I make sure I never touch it until I am just taking the shot.
A lesson for anyone that may ever shoot blackpowder.
I had another little accident that bothered me more even though nobody got hurt (other than my wounded pride…).
I had gone hunting at my daughter and son-in-law’s land in northern Minnesota and had taken my blackpowder .45 CVA Kentucky longrifle.
I went out a few times with no luck except a few deer too far out to try with a lousy .45 roundball and at the end of the day, I fired the loaded round into the dirt in a safe direction in case of a rock under the surface as I always do and set the gun aside.
Well, everyone wanted to see the gun of course, then they wanted to see how to load it. So I went through all of the steps, even showing them how to check to see if it was loaded or not by dropping the ram-rod down the barrel metal end first so they could hear it “ping” when it hit the breech.
I then dropped the rod down again to show them how the lead ball just gave a dull thud and how a mark on the rod would show how far the rod went into the barrel which would indicate if it was empty or not by where the mark was. If empty it should have been right at the end of the barrel instead of a few inches above it if it had a charge of powder and a ball.
I set the now loaded gun, with no cap on the nipple in a safe place (no kids around to mess with it thankfully) and the next day, as I was preparing to go out, my son-in-law suggested I borrow his 30-30 lever-action to improve my chances since he had to go to work and wouldn’t need it. I did so, but had no luck and went home empty handed. The next night at home… I decided to clean the gun and promptly forgot all about having loaded it.
Here is the part the rest of you should pay close attention to when dealing with a Muzzleloader.
I actually “cleaned” the gun without noticing that the rod did not go all the way down as it would with an empty gun. The mark I had put on the rod was normally a white ring around the rod, but had gotten dirty and I didn’t notice it was missing. If I had seen it, I would have known something was amiss. It should have been even with the muzzle.
Anyhow, this is the interesting part for me… I ran that rod down and back up that barrel with several cleaning patches until they were all nice and clean.
While doing so, I heard the familiar “whistling” that you will hear when the air is pushed down the barrel ahead of the patch and out the nipple at the breach. Or… at least that is what I thought it was… In fact what I was hearing was the compressed air whistling past the cleaning patch and back out the muzzle!!!
The next step in cleaning a blackpowder gun is to make sure you then clean the nipple out in case you pushed some debris into it while cleaning it.
There are several ways to do this.
You can push a wire pick into the opening to ensure it is clear or you can put an ignition cap on the nipple and fire it in a safe direction to blow any debris out of the nipple.
Guess which method I chose…
Yep, you guessed it, I put an ignition cap on the nipple on the now fully cleaned “empty” gun and promptly shot a .45 inch hole in the hallway carpet!! 😯
I was dumbfounded! WTF!! How the hell did this gun get loaded again??
Then I remembered… Oh.. yeah… that’s how… 🙄
Luckily I missed the gas line running along the joists in the basement by at least 6 inches… and the ball impacted the heavy wooden parts of the joists and deflected God knows where elsewhere in the basement. To this day I still have not found that thing… 😆
The wife was not too pleased, but not angry, she is pretty forgiving of me… Now she tells the amusing story of me walking into the bedroom with a cloud of white smoke rolling in behind me to tell her what the loud noise was… 😆
It was a cold MN winter day and so instead of opening the patio door and firing it out as I should have, if at all… I figured… aw hell, its just a friggin cap… and… BOOOOM!!!! 😯 😆
Just glad no real harm came of it and if anyone can learn from this, it is all worth it..
To this day, I will amuse my guests by shoving the back end of the cleaning rod into the hole in the carpet and down into the basement to show them what happened.
Bruce
This all happened because I got the idea to try something besides just aiming at the target with my finger on the frame above the trigger, then moving it down to the trigger, adjusting aim and firing as I normally do.
I figured I would try a quick target acquisition and shot just for fun starting with the gun pointed to the floor, bringing it up and firing as soon as the sights lined up…. It was fun alright, but it didn’t quite work out that way after the 4th or 5th shot…. 😆
I am still trying this with mixed results of accuracy of course, but I have since moved anything from directly below the shooting area and a 2 foot area on either side.
Bruce
A few years in the Marine Corps and your pic brings this immediately into mind:
Firearm Safety Rules:
1) Treat every weapon as if it were loaded
2) Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
3) Keep trigger finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire
4) Keep weapon on safe until you intend to fire.
Have fun, be safe. may your post remind everyone how easily “accidents” can happen.
p.s. you are not the only one. I once put 1oz of #8 shot into the side of the family camper trailer, removed gun from case (should have been unloaded) pointed in a “safe” direction to “dry fire” and BOOOM. Dad was pissed at me for weeks. (There are no accidents with guns, things happen when people quit paying attention; I ASSUMED because it was in a case that it was unloaded. I violated rule #1 & #2). 99.5% of gun accidents are preventable.
Ooch! You might as well get a grouping on it now…lol 🙂
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Revwarnut I think most of us have suffered from bad judgment one time or another, but you missed a great opportunity to make us laugh.
I would have said something like, “The printer was broken and I had a killer new target to try…”.
Seriously though, I’m glad you suffered no real harm. My most serious lack of judgment caused me to have a BB shot into my right forearm 25 or so years ago, its still in there. Ricochet from the bottom of a drinking glass.